- adolescent - relating to or peculiar to or suggestive of an adolescent; "adolescent problems"
- adolescent, teen, teenage, teenaged - being of the age 13 through 19; "teenage mothers"; "the teen years"
Antonym: old (indirect, via young)
- adolescent, jejune, juvenile, puerile - displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity; "adolescent insecurity"; "jejune responses to our problems"; "their behavior was juvenile"; "puerile jokes"
Antonym: mature (indirect, via immature)
- adolescent - in the state of development between puberty and maturity; "adolescent boys and girls"
Antonym: mature (indirect, via immature)
- adolescent, teen, teenage, teenaged - being of the age 13 through 19; "teenage mothers"; "the teen years"
- adolescent, stripling, teenager - a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity
--1 is a kind of juvenile, juvenile person
--1 has particulars:chebab; mod; pachuco; punk rocker, punk; rocker; young buck, young man Derived form: verb adolesce1